Faculty

Scholarship & Publications

Professor Erick Eschker:

  • Eschker, Erick (co-authored with Lara Remke, Economics major) "Ethanol and Competition in a Rural Gasoline Market: A Descriptive Case Study of Eureka, California," Northwest Journal of Business and Economics, forthcoming.
  • Eschker, Erick (co-authored with Julia West, Economics major) "The Economic Impact of Health Care Providers in Del Norte County, California," 2007.
  • Eschker, Erick (co-authored with Soren Messner-Zidell, Economics major) "Is There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County? The Housing Market in a Rural California Region, 1989-2004," 2005.
  • Eschker, Erick (Christopher Olson, Economics major, was the research assistant) "Fiscal Redistribution by Age and Generational Inequality in the Twentieth Century." Submitted for journal review, 2006. Note: Presented at the 2005 Social Science History Association Meetings.
  • Eschker, Erick (co-authored with David Berri at CSU Bakersfield) "Performance When It Counts? The Myth of the Prime-Time Performer in Professional Basketball," Journal of Economic Issues, September 2005, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 798-807. Note: Presented at the 2004 Western Economic Association Meetings
  • Eschker, Erick, "Generational Accounting and the Saving Rate Decline, 1960-2000," Public Budgeting and Finance, March 2005, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 46-65. Note: Presented at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
  • Eschker, Erick (co-authored with Stephen Perez and Mark Siegler at CSU Sacramento), "The NBA and the Influx of International Basketball Players," Applied Economics, June 2004, vol. 36, issue 10, pp. 1009-1020.
  • Eschker, Erick (Jim Truitt, Economics major, was the research assistant) "The Characteristics of Countries with Generational Account Imbalances," Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, March 2003, pp. 39-57.
  • Eschker, Erick, Study Guide for "The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets," seventh edition, by Frederic Mishkin, Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.
  • Current Research Interests:
    Professor Erick Eschker has worked with many undergraduate economics majors on published research. He studies the causes and consequences of public intergenerational redistribution programs such as Social Security and Medicare. These programs are expected to experience large fiscal crises in most developed countries over the next half-century. He also studies worker productivity in the National Basketball Association and the local gasoline and housing markets. He presented his research at the American Medical Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Professor Steven Hackett (publications since 2000):

  • Hackett, Steven, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society, 3rd Edition. (M.E. Sharpe, Publishers, 2006).
  • Hackett, Steven. "Natural Resources." In A. Vaidya (ed.) Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics, Volume 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006, p. 820-828.
  • Hackett, Steven (co-authored with Dave Hankin, Matthew Krachey (student co-author), and Sharon Brown), "Derby Fisheries, Individual Quotas, and Transition in the Fish Processing Industry," Marine Resource Economics, April 2005, 20(1), pp. 47-50. Note: Presented at the 2004 American Agricultural Economics Association Meetings in Denver.
  • Hackett, Steven (co-authored with Chris Dewees, Dave Hankin, Matthew Krachey (student co-author), and Kristen Sortais), "Racing for Crabs: Costs and Management Options in California's Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery," California Agriculture, Oct/Dec 2004, 58(4), pp. 186-93. Note: This article received the Gold Award from the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals as the best refereed article of the year.
  • Hackett, Steven (co-authored with Chris Dewees and Matthew Krachey (student co-author)), "Characteristics of Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister) Processing in California," California Agriculture, Oct/Dec 2004, 58(4), pp. 190-91.
  • Hackett, Steven (co-authored with Chris Dewees, Dave Hankin, Matthew Krachey (student co-author), and Kristen Sortais), "An Economic Overview of Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister) Processing in California", forthcoming, California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports vol. 44, 2003, 86-93.
  • Hackett, Steven, "Management of Ocean Fisheries." In Water: Science and Issues, ed. E. Julius Dasch. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
  • Hackett, Steven, "An Economic Overview of the California Wetfish Industry Complex." In California's "Wetfish" Industry: It's Importance Past, Present and Future, ed. D. Pleschner-Steele. Santa Barbara, CA: California Seafood Council, 2002. (Assisted by graduate student Matthew Krachey)
  • Hackett, Steven, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society, 2nd Edition. (M.E. Sharpe, Publishers, 2001) - Note: First edition published in 1998.
  • Hackett, Steven (co-authored with J. Maxwell and T. Lyon), "Self-Regulation and Social Welfare: The Political Economy of Corporate Environmentalism." Journal of Law and Economics, October 2000, 43, pp. 583-618.

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  • Current Research Interests:
    Professor Steven Hackett's most recent research interests have focused on environmental and natural resource economics. He continues to be involved with policy work relating to the economy of the redwood coast region of northwestern California.

Professor Beth Wilson:

  • Wilson, Beth (co-authored with James Frew of Willamette University), "Apartment Rents and Locations in Portland, Oregon A Comparison: 1992-2002," Journal of Real Estate Research, forthcoming.
  • Wilson, Beth, "The Economic Impact Report of the Ingomar Theater Renovation," 2007.
  • Wilson, Beth "The Economic Impact Report of loans made by Arcata Economic Development Corporation (AEDC)," 2006.
  • Wilson, Beth (co-authored with James Frew of Willamette University), "Urban Growth Boundary Restrictions and Dynamic Property Values," presented at the annual meeting of the American Real Estate Society on April 2-5, 2003. (Cynthia Salazar, an Economics major, was the research assistant and attended the meetings)
  • Wilson, Beth (co-authored with Jim Frew), "Estimating the Connections Between Location and Property Value," Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 2002, vol. 5, pp. 17-26.
  • Frew, Jim and Wilson, Beth, “Transportation Routes, Apartment Rents and the Assessment of Value,” in Essays in Honor of James A Graaskamp: Ten Years After, Research Issues in Real Estate, Vol. 5. Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society, Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
  • Wilson, Beth (co-authored with James Ziliak and Joe Stone), "Spatial Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Cyclicality of Real Wages," The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1999.
  • Current Research Interests:
    Professor Beth Wilson has focused her research on studying the apartment-rent gradient of Portland, Oregon. Portland provides an interesting case study because it has one of the most restrictive urban growth boundaries (UGB) in the US. Furthermore, Portland has not relaxed their UGB despite the fact that they have experienced a large increase in their population. This has resulted in a significant increase in Portland's population density and much less urban sprawl than in other US cities. Consequently, Portland's rent gradient is more comparable to a European city than a typical medium-sized American city. Urban planners are presently debating the benefits and costs of UGBs, thus this research is both timely and relevant. Wilson has worked with her student, Cynthia Salazar, since October 2002. She presented this research at annual meeting of the American Real Estate Society on April 2-5, 2003 and is currently preparing it for publication.